Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!"
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Accessories
89 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory"
Elsie de Wolfe
Interior Designer
"Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories."
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"The less you can afford for your frocks, the more care you must take with your accessories"
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure."
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"Confidence is the best accessory. It can make or break an outfit."
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"You must always remember, the most important fashion accessory is the condom."
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"That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories."
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"The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time."
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"When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on."
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"Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose."
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"The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value."
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"To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims."
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"The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself."
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"A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have"
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"The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention."
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"The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property."
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"There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look."
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